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Getting Unstuck

Getting Unstuck

What is The Plateau Effect, and how will you Get Unstuck?

April 25, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

After the Great Recession, there is the Great Stuckness. Sure, the unemployment rate seems under control, it’s been a while since a major bank or brokerage went belly up, the Dow is soaring, and even the housing market is showing signs of life. But you probably don’t feel like things [Keep reading]

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Self-employment tax will crush America by 2020, when 40 percent will be freelancers

April 14, 2014 Bob Sullivan 5

If you are paying more than 20 percent of your income in federal taxes, you are doing it wrong. That’s roughly what the Obamas pay every year — hey, at least it’s more than Mitt Romney. As you should know by now, Obama pays a lower real tax rate than [Keep reading]

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Take the 30-Day Getting Unstuck challenge, or buy the book

February 25, 2014 Default User 1

Click to subscribe or read on  Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson have helped the Miami Heat win consecutive NBA titles. Their book, The Plateau Effect/Getting Unstuck, has been featured on the cover of O! Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Hugh has helped grow a $3 [Keep reading]

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Portland Event: Saturday, July 20, at Powell’s Books – 8 p.m.

July 18, 2013 Bob Sullivan 0

Portland Event: Saturday, July 20, at Powell’s Books – 8 p.m. Email me with questions at BobSullivan4@gmail.com

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Yes, you can start a business for less than $5,000

May 14, 2013 Bob Sullivan 2

Like so many Americans, Seth Rubin was a victim of the recession of 2009. He was laid off as a project manager for a construction company as home building plummeted in Denver. An avid cyclist, he had always dreamed of opening up a coffee and biscuit shop, but the huge [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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